Here are the team presentations from yesterday’s final project workshop:
Prof. Mike Nelson gave a great keynote speech this morning at our final workshop in Brussels. He left conference participants with some recommended reading:
We will post presentations from the event on this site soon. Until then you can follow discussion on Twitter using the #TAFI hashtag.
The Final Report for the study is now available. Thanks to all those who have participated in the study at workshops and in the Delphi survey. Comments below are most welcome.
The draft final report of the study is now available for comment. The report is essentially in two parts — a short and readable main report summarising the main findings, with supporting material available in Appendixes. More detailed material is also available on this study website. Comments are extremely welcome.
We are pleased to announce the provisional programme for our final public event in Brussels on 22nd November, 25 Avenue de Beaulieu, Brussels, DG Information Society and Media. You can register here.
| 10.15 am | Registration and coffee |
| 10.30 | Welcome
Ian Brown, Project Manager, Oxford Internet Institute |
| 10.35 | Towards a Future Internet: Aims of the Study
Per Blixt, Head of Unit, New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities and/or Fabrizio Sestini, Scientific Officer, EC DG INFSO |
| 10.45 | Keynote speaker
The future internet – a personal view Professor Mike Nelson, Georgetown University |
| 11.15 | Towards a Future Internet: study methodology
Colin Blackman, Camford Associates |
| 11.25 | Results of the Delphi Study
Rafael Popper, Manchester University |
| 11.45 | The growing complexity of human and technological interaction
Lara Srivastava, Webster University |
| 12.15 | Scenarios and design principles for the future internet
Simon Forge, SCF Associates |
| 12.35 | Key messages from the study
Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute |
| 12.45 | Discussion |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Keynote speaker
Defining internet science Chris Marsden, University of Essex |
| 14.15 | Panel discussion |
| 15.15 | Future internet EU research and strategy
Mario Campolargo, Director of Emerging Technologies and Infrastructure, EC DG INFSO |
| 15.30 | Workshop close |
Detailed reports on Round 1 and Round 2 of our Delphi Survey are now available. The first elicited expert views on a wide range of social, economic, political and technological aspects of the Internet over the next 20 years. The second asked for views on the likelihood and desirability of the four scenarios that were constructed and refined over the course of the study.
The second round also captured hundreds of specific comments from experts, such as:
We would like to encourage debate so please read the reports and post your own comments in reply here.
Mark your diary for the final Public Workshop on 22 November. The aim is to present the results of the study, Towards a Future Internet, and promote discussion about its findings. The agenda is being finalised but will include:
Interested parties are encouraged to comment on the study’s outputs which are available on this site. The Final Report will be available at the workshop.
In June we held our interim project workshop in Brussels. You can now read our report of the proceedings.
Here is a short report on the expert workshop we held at MIT earlier this year. Many thanks to the participants for their time and for contributing their notes on the event.
Image: Mac Funamizu
Our third and final expert workshop happened last month at Keio University in Tokyo. It followed the format of March’s event at MIT, with twenty invited experts from east Asia analysing our draft future scenarios and their implications for future Internet research. Thanks to team member Prof. Motohiro Tsuchiya and his Keio colleagues for putting this together. You can now read his report on the event.